I bought a second hand copy of this that had clearly been owned by someone who’d studied it at uni… which was convenient because in the part about the Count they wrote “personification of po-mo”. And i’m glad they did because that made me realise that this book is basically Post-structuralism: the novel, which helped me to make a lot more sense of it. Having said that, i’m not convinced Post-structuralism: the novel is necessarily a good concept for a novel… I think i’d probably get into this if i studied it at uni, but as a bedtime read it’s maybe less the vibe.